Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection · vessel

Vessel

Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, acc. 10322. See the source record for rights. Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10322
Find spot: Armant, Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic Period
Date: Predynastic Period
Date range: 4500 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['Pottery']
Height: 10.2 cm
Width: 4.6 cm
Repository: Manchester Museum
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Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection, Vessel (10322). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17549

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AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small, broken, reddish-brown pottery vessel sherd with faint incised marks that resemble partial hieroglyphic signs.

The image shows a fragmentary ceramic sherd lying diagonally on a dark surface, with the break edges clearly visible. The sherd has a roughly smoothed exterior and visible reddish-brown fabric consistent with fired pottery. On the upper portion of the sherd there are faint, blackish incised/painted lines and a small cluster of marks that could correspond to hieroglyphic-style sign groupings, but the details are not clear enough to identify specific signs confidently. No cartouche, royal titulary, or clearly legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. A museum label with “MANCHESTER 1924” and additional printed information appears beneath the sherd, but this is modern cataloging text, not part of the artifact inscription. Overall condition is fragmentary.

decorative Predynastic Period (per catalogue); inscription/signs on sherd are unclear fragmentary

Materials Pottery (ceramic sherd)

Signs unknown incised hieroglyphic-style mark cluster ×3

Visible text "Faint, partially preserved incised/painted marks; illegible as a readable phrase or named sign group."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Faint, partially preserved incised/painted marks; illegible as a readable phrase or named sign group.

Connections

Found at Armant

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (3)

Manchester-Accession 10322 tier-2
Manchester-IRN 107626 tier-2
Manchester-UUID 1c5a54f0-6336-3d4e-9b37-1f1e10dbe973 tier-2

About this record's data

From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.